Claude solves 25-year NSA crypto mystery in under 30 minutes, no backdoor found
luisdans · x · 2026-10-19
For 25 years, cryptographers suspected the NSA had planted a backdoor in NIST's elliptic-curve cryptographic standards via a set of unexplained constants. Anthropic says Claude traced the numbers in under 30 minutes to a mundane 1990s computer program and computer-clock timestamps — not an espionage mechanism — and found no security flaw.
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